I've been doing lots of little projects today, trying to stay busy. I'm anxious for the weekend because, well, it's the weekend. But I also don't particularly care for next week to get here anytime soon. I have to drive to DC in Monday morning traffic for a doctor appointment, and then my husband is going to be gone the rest of the week. When I get anxious or stressed, I tend to just sit around and obsess over whatever is worrisome, which only makes me feel worse and worse. So today I'm trying to keep myself occupied and focus on more pleasant things.
First of all, I re-potted some succulents - the kind my mom always called hens and chickens. I think plants like these are pretty inexpensive. This one was about $2 and they spread quickly and easily. I separated them into a super adorable little hanging planter I found at an antique store (which I will photograph and share when I find a place to actually hang it), and some ceramic geese measuring cups.
Now the goose that holds my air plants will have some company! I took these little plants from a slightly larger one my mom keeps in her window which actually used to belong to my grandmother. I love these little plants and hope maybe I can get them to to make lots of baby air plants - I feel like maybe they are not getting enough moisture.
So another thing I did this morning was make new homes for some strawberry runners. Did you know that's where baby strawberry plants come from??? Forget trying to plant a strawberry seed - baby plants just show up and search for a place to root, much like the succulents and air plants. I have three full grown strawberry plants, so I have triple that many runners. If anybody nearby wants one for free, let me know! Anyone in WV, too, since I'll be over that way in just over a week.
Today is also feeding time for my worms - yes, I keep a rubbermaid container full of worms in my house. They compost my leftover food. I want to do a whole post about them sometime soon, but I thought I'd share a few pictures today. I didn't have much in the way of scraps for them this week, but I did have some frozen leftovers from last time when I didn't want to overload them with too much. It's some moldy bread, mushy banana, a little corn, and some egg shells all blended together.
Super gross, right? Well, they seem to like it okay. Look, one of the little guys came out to say hey. My husband thinks they're pretty gross. He doesn't want to touch them, and he made me move them into the basement stairwell because of a fruit fly infestation that I pretty much had under control.
So that's about all for today - thanks for reading this far. Next week maybe I'll go into more detail about vermicomposting and I plan on sharing a pretty neat way to decorate flower pots. Maybe I'll even make myself cook something - I did put that in the blog title, after all. I'll leave you with some pictures I took of a visitor I found in my garden this morning.
Have a great weekend!
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